Scraping tool



Patented Jan. 30, 1923..

WILLIAM: F. ANDERSON, OF TORRINGTON, WYOMING.

SCRAPING TOOL.

Application filed December 3, 1919. Serial No. 342,043.

T aZZ whom-it may concern: and 10 respectively, which may be of any -5 Be it known that I, IVILLIAM F. Alannapreferred type. 1

SON, a citizen of the United States, residing In carrying out the invention, one of the at Torrington, in the county of Goshen and handles 6 is preferably of slightly greater State of Wyoming, have invented certain length than the other handle and is pro new and useful Improvements in Scraping vided with a straight and flattened terminal, 60

Tools, of which the following is a specificabeing of substantially uniform width tion. throughout. its length and having the op- This invention relates to improvements in posed side edges beveled as at 11. The

10 scraping tools, more particularly to an eleinner surface of the handle lying intermediment of a pair of pliers of the type specially ate the beveled edges 11 is hollow-ground or 65 designed for removing, adjusting, and reconcave in cross-section as indicated at 12 placing the spark plugs of explosive engines; providing, at the corners of the beveled and the invention has for its object to so edges ll, 'stra1ght parallel cutting edges 13.

15 construct one of the handles of pliers of The width of the blade is such as to be rethis type that it. may be conveniently and ceived within the bore of the shell or body 70 effectively utilized for scraping the carbon of a spark plug l3 as suggestedin Fig. 2. accumulated in the interior of the shell or and by disposing the straight edges 13 of body of the plug. the handle in engagement with the wall of Another object is to so construct the scrapthe bore of the plug body a slight sliding ing edges of the handle as to prevent their or scraping movement of the edges over the 7.5 interference with the usual mode of use of wall of the bore efi'ectively cleans the entire the pliers and render them convenient of use. area of the latter of carbon and other ac- With these and other objects in view as cumulations thus ensuring proper operation will appear as the description proceeds, the of the plug when applied to the cylinder of invention comprises the novel features of the explosive engine. The opposed relation construction, combination, and arrangement of the edges 13 insures effective action thereof parts which will be more fully described of as the plug body is turned in either diin the following specification and then rection during the scraping operation. It. is

30 finally pointed out in the claim hereunto evident that the scraping edges 18 are diappended. Y rected inwardly toward the other handle 5 I F lgure 1 represents a perspective view of of the pliers so as not to cut into or otherthe improved pliers, illustrating the body wise injure the hand of the operator when or shell of a spark plug in dotted lines; the plier handles are gripped therein. When 35 and Fig. 2 represents a transverse sectional the tool is utilized in scraping spark plugs. it

view through the shell or body of a spark is evident that the jaws 9 and 10 and adjaplug illustrating the manner of use of the cent portions of the handles 5 and 6 form a scraping implement. handle capable of being conveniently grasped. Referring to the drawing in detail wherein the hand of. the operator while turning 40 in similarreference numerals designate corthe tool with respect to the spark plug.

responding parts throughout the several What I claim is: 1 views, the numerals 5 and 6 indicate the Ascraping tool comprisingahandle memhandles of the pliers which are enlarged at her provided with an elongated straight porone terminal for pivotal connection with tion having one face transversely concave 45 each other, which connection is established practically its entire length, a smoothflat through a pivot pin 7 secured to the handle face opposite thereto, and said member havmember 6 and alternately engageable in the ing two oppositely disposed bevelled faces circular openings 8 formed in the enlarged diverging from said flat face toward said terminal of the other handle member 5 concave face forming with the longitudinal 50 whereby the adjustment of the jaws may be edges of said concave face parallel, scraping varied to adapt the pliers to use in connecedges as and for the purpose specified. tion with large or small objects as desired. In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature As usual, the enlarged extremities of the hereto.

handles are formed with integral jaws 9 WILLIAM F. ANDERSON. 

